I was travelling around Europe with a few friends. We were not staying at any one place very long, but hopping around a lot.

Our next stop was...Atticus's house. I don't remember where Atticus lives, though.

Looking at where we were on a map, Europe was divided pretty evenly north/south by a sea. The north sub-continent was referred to as "the mainland" even though it wasn't very much bigger than the south one.